Nancy Segal: California State University, FullertonAn overview of the origins, methods, findings, implications and controversies from the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart is provided. This study, which took place […]
Paul Heggarty: 4:00 PM Cotsen Institute Room A222From the Tower of Babel to the tales of the Aboriginal Dreamtime, we have long sought to account for our baffling multiplicity of […]
Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook: University of California, Los AngelesPostpartum depression poses an evolutionary puzzle: it is extremely common, yet significantly reduces the reproductive fitness of both mothers and children. Why has natural […]
Bailey House: University of California, Los AngelesOne explanation for the diversity in cooperative behavior across human social groups is that our prosociality is motivated in part by learned cultural beliefs […]
Claire White : California State University, NorthridgeGrief is a universal reaction to the loss of a valued relationship partner. Two main evolutionary accounts of grief have been proposed. The first […]
Steven Stroessner: Barnard College, Columbia UniversityMotivations are generally concerned with maintaining safety (prevention) or ensuring advancement (promotion) (Regulatory focus theory; Higgins, 1997). Four experiments examined whether information implying imminent threat […]
Monique Borgerhoff-Mulder: University of California, DavisWhile the causes, transmission and consequences of material and social inequality are well studied in the social sciences, the ways in which people respond to […]
Matthew Gervais: The University of California, Los AngelesExperimental economic games have shed significant light on human population variation in social behavior. However, most of these games have involved anonymous dyadic […]
Lee Cronk: Rutgers University Department of AnthropologyAnthropologists are rarely able to predict when a culture trait will influence behavior and when it will not. The theory of gene-culture coevolution leads […]
Richard McElreath: UC Davis Department of AnthropologyIt's common for evolutionary psychologists to invoke evolutionary mismatch as an explanation for maladaptive human behavior. For example, people eat themselves to death, because […]
